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Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically, which we share with Chickens, Cats, Guinea Pigs and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I work as an environmental educator, lecturer, writer and Forest School leader at Moors Wood . I am a Master Composter and have spent the last 11 years as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council. I offer talks and run workshops and events where we talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. We also make crafts and have fun.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.To learn more about us click on the About Compostwoman tab and remember to click on the photos to make them full size!

Sunday, 17 April 2016

Cars, Cuckoos and Nightingales

When I got up Di and I went for a walk with Hooch the dog to the beach, then we talked compost in her garden. I left lovely friends house at mid day and then spent 6 hours rather than the expected 3 hours driving home from St Davids peninsular cos my car went wrong and was on a safe mode go slow ie "couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding" power mode ... and service station food did not look great if you are gluten and dairy intolerant like me. So I drank what I had in the car, stopped twice for a break and then pressed ( slowly) on. At home now and making up for lost eating and drinking time. Also, It was Compostman's birthday today so we had wine and choklit brownies from Wales ( which were yum) smile emoticonThen later on, I just heard the first nightingale of our year here. Also heard the first cuckoo in Moors Wood last week, on Monday.smile emoticonsmile emoticon